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Vicuña applies her poetic sensibilities to her hand-tinted photographs of Santiago street life under the Chilean dictatorshipPublished with Toluca and Fundacion Lariviere.Roaming the streets of 1970s Santiago with a Russian camera in hand, poet-turned-photographer Leonora Vicuña (born 1952) captured its denizens in bars, cinemas and dance halls, hand-coloring and manipulating them to create a dreamlike, imaginary world removed from an austere reality.

An expanded edition of the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of iconic Mexican photographer Graciela IturbidePublished with MAPFRE.Mexico City-born Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) is one of Latin America's most acclaimed photographers and the only Latin American woman to have received the prestigious Hasselblad Award. With a focus on identity, sexuality, festivals, rituals, daily life, death and the roles of women, Iturbide's photographs share visual stories of cultures in constant transitional periods.Featuring over 200 photographs, this expanded edition book comprises one of the most comprehensive explorations of Iturbide's career to date, gathering an impressive and widespread selection of her work, curated by Marta Dahó. It includes some of her best-known images, such as Frida Kahlo's Bedroom (2005), Those Who Live in the Sand (1979) and Juchitán (1979), as well as many lesser-known works. She pays special attention to her most iconic images and offers a cross-sectional journey from her earliest projects to her most recent creations. Over the course of her four-decade career, Iturbide has built up a poetic language of images and symbols; a consistent preoccupation is the juxtaposition between urban and rural life. The subjects of her black-and-white photography mostly reside in Latin America but encompass India, Europe and Asia as well. This volume provides an essential overview of her accomplishments.

A tribute to a leading exponent of Kinetic art, in honor of the centenary of Soto's birthPublished with RGR Gallery .The Venezuelan painter and sculptor Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005) is exalted as a pioneer of Kinetic and Op art. Faced with a world in constant movement, Soto responded in kind, employing his knowledge of geometry and negative space to create three-dimensional works that appear to vibrate or shift in space. He worked with unorthodox materials such as nylon, Perspex, steel and industrial paint to attain this destabilizing effect.Published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's birth, The Instability of the Real showcases arresting reproductions of Soto's works, immersing readers in his innovative experiments with movement, perception and space. The volume offers rare insights into his creative processes, the cultural context of his time and his profound impact on the art world, featuring a series of scholarly essays as well as a suite of five interviews with the artist, marking each decade from 1960 to 2000.